Timeline
The history of LIFAD Colombia, milestone by milestone, since 2004.
Two threads, one story: the band Rammstein's milestones and, marked in red, those of our community, Rammstein Colombia. Filter to follow each thread on its own.
2026
Video · November 4, 2026
Live in Mexico City, in cinemas
The film of the three Foro Sol nights, directed by Paul Dugdale, opened in cinemas worldwide for a limited run. In Colombia it played at fourteen Cinemark, Cinépolis and Procinal screens in seven cities, from November 4 to 8: the second time the community pushed a Rammstein film into the country’s cinemas, after Paris in 2017. The live album, with the extended cut on Blu-ray, was set for November 20.
Video · September 23, 2026
«Armee der Tristen», a first look at Live in Mexico City
The first digital single from the live album, recorded at Foro Sol: «Armee der Tristen», with its concert video. It is the first taste of the film before its cinema release. Source: RammWiki.
2025
Community · February 28, 2025
HERETIC and the philharmonic tribute in Bogotá
With the band on a break (some two years without touring), the community stays active. A new Treffen arrives, along with our first partnership: HERETIC. And, after the success of the philharmonic tribute in Medellín, this year it reaches the Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in Bogotá. The tribute is a large alliance —Idartes, Fundación Pasión y Corazón, STEIN and others— and we did our part, the same as each of them. Once again, Bogotá in flames!
2024
Community
141 concerts, none in South America
The stadium tour Rammstein ran between 2019 and 2024 added up to 141 concerts and never reached South America: it stayed in Europe and North America. Fourteen years after Sopó, the region remained off the band’s map.
It is the most uncomfortable milestone on this page, and also the one that explains why this archive exists: as long as there is no second visit, what’s left is to document the first one properly.
Tour · July 31, 2024
The tour ends where it began
Five years and 141 concerts later, the stadium tour ends at the same Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen where it started. In total it sold more than 6.8 million tickets across Europe and North America.
Community
20 years and the biggest event
Rammstein Colombia turns 20. And we celebrated in style: the biggest fan-organized Rammstein event in Colombia, with tribute band STEIN and the Metropolitan Philharmonic of Medellín, before more than 1,000 people. That same year the band supported the community with two deliveries of LIFAD kits, handed out at the Treffen and other activities.
2023
Album · June 9, 2023
Sehnsucht, anniversary edition
The second album returns remastered, with an exclusive new mix of «Spiel mit mir» (the «2023 Mix») and a 40-page booklet of unpublished photos by Gottfried Helnwein, the artist behind the original covers. Out on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital. Source: RammWiki.
The band
The allegations against Till Lindemann
After the May 22, 2023 concert in Vilnius, a woman said on social media that during the show she had been taken to a room with Till Lindemann to have sex with him, and that she refused. Other allegations followed, published by German media including NDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel. Lindemann and the band denied any criminal wrongdoing.
Berlin prosecutors opened an investigation on June 14 and closed it on August 29, 2023: they found no sufficient grounds, and none of the alleged victims came forward to the authorities. In Lithuania, prosecutors did not open a case either. A Hamburg court issued preliminary injunctions barring several outlets from repeating some of the published claims. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, the publisher of his poetry books, ended its relationship with him. The stadium tour continued until 2024.
We record it because it is part of the band’s history, without adding anything to what the authorities and published sources established.
2022
Video · November 24, 2022
«Adieu», Zeit's farewell
The last single and last video of the Zeit era: the video premieres on November 24 and the single follows the next day. It is directed by Specter Berlin, who also directed “Deutschland”, and shot in Paris, at the Palais Garnier and in a studio. It runs almost nine minutes. Sources: RammWiki, RammWiki (video) and Wikipedia.
Tour · October 1, 2022
Three nights at Foro Sol
The stadium tour reaches Mexico City: Foro Sol on October 1, 2 and 4, 2022. Many members of the community travelled to see it, several of them for more than one night. Those three nights were filmed for Live in Mexico City.
Community · May 13, 2022
The negotiation that led nowhere
In May 2022, Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported that Rammstein were negotiating to bring their stadium tour to at least four countries in the region — Colombia among them, with El Campín as the proposed venue — for mid-2023. The source was the specialist account Music Trends Colombia, not the band or its management.
Nothing was ever confirmed. We record it because it is an honest part of the story: between 2010 and today, this bond has rested more on announcements that collapse than on dates that happen.
Album · April 29, 2022
Zeit
The eighth studio album, recorded at La Fabrique with Olsen Involtini after the pandemic postponed the tour. It reaches number 1 in Germany, and the cover photo is by Bryan Adams. “Zeit”, “Zick Zack” and “Angst” prove that, almost thirty years on, Rammstein is still the master of its own time. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
2021
The band
A new song, premiered in space
In October, the first public sign of the eighth album doesn’t come over the radio but from orbit: a song from the upcoming record is shared with astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard the International Space Station. Recording had wrapped up that February. Source: Wikipedia.
2020
Album · December 4, 2020
Herzeleid, 25 years on
For the first album’s 25th anniversary, the Herzeleid XXV edition comes out remastered, on CD and vinyl in a cardboard box, with a high-resolution 24-bit download. It had been announced in September, the month of the anniversary. Source: RammWiki.
2019
Tour · May 27, 2019
The stadium tour begins
Ten days after the seventh album, the stadium tour opens at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The pandemic stopped it in 2020: the dates were pushed to 2021 and then again to 2022.
Album · May 17, 2019
RAMMSTEIN (untitled album)
Ten years after the previous record, the seventh album arrives with “Deutschland”, “Radio” and “Ausländer”, and with the biggest stadium tour in the band’s history. Recorded in 2018 at La Fabrique in France, it is the first not produced by Jacob Hellner: Olsen Involtini produces it. It enters the German chart at number 1 and goes diamond there. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
Video · April 26, 2019
«Radio»: the GDR's forbidden music
Second single from the untitled album. The song goes back to the East Germany of the band’s youth, where secretly listening to Western radio was a way to escape the regime’s restrictions; Jörn Heitmann’s video shows citizens obsessed with their radios and riots demanding free airwaves. Source: Wikipedia.
Video · March 28, 2019
"Deutschland": the return, ten years on
The band’s first new song since “Mein Land” (2011), and the lead single from its first studio album in almost ten years, arrives with a video by Specter Berlin that runs through German history, from the Roman Empire to the present, with actress Ruby Commey as Germania. Days earlier, a 35-second teaser showing band members dressed as concentration camp prisoners had started the most serious public debate of their career.
2017
Community · March 23, 2017
Rammstein: Paris in cinemas
Together with Cineco Alternativo, for the worldwide cinema release of Rammstein: Paris, we sold out 15 screenings across 8 cities for that single showing. Between June and July, the community followed the band on its tour across the United States.
2016
Community · February 27, 2016
The Treffen are born
The Treffen is born: the official themed party of the fan club in Colombia, conceived and led by Leo Jaime. Its first edition, “Treffen I: in Amerika,” at Index Finger, Bogotá. A space for coming together, activities and celebration that started during a quiet period for the band and became the community’s meeting point. Ten years on it keeps growing, with editions in Bogotá, Medellín and Manizales.
2013
Community
The LIFAD kits arrive: LIFAD Colombia is born
A year after the band renamed its official fan club LIFAD —the initials of its 2009 album, Liebe ist für alle da—, the official kits it sent to the clubs as recognition reach Colombia. This is the moment Rammstein Colombia officially becomes LIFAD Colombia as well. We handed out our kits to active members at Parque Simón Bolívar. The name changed; the community, the same since 2004.
2012
The band
The official fan club becomes LIFAD
The band’s official fan club, which had existed since September 26, 1996 under the names Fanclub, Fanarea and Community, takes the name LIFAD: the initials of Liebe ist für alle da, the 2009 album. Source: RammWiki.
2011
The band · December 2, 2011
Made in Germany 1995–2011
The band’s only compilation comes out: remastered songs from its first six albums and one previously unreleased track, “Mein Land”. The tour of the same name had started in November and covered the whole repertoire of those seventeen years.
2010
Tour · December 11, 2010
Madison Square Garden, eight days after Sopó
Eight days after playing Colombia, the Liebe ist für alle da tour reaches New York: on December 11, 2010, Rammstein plays a sold-out Madison Square Garden. That concert is the core of Rammstein in Amerika, released in 2015 together with a documentary on the band’s history with the United States.
Community · December 3, 2010
Rammstein in Bogotá
The dream comes true: on Friday, December 3, 2010, Rammstein sets foot in Colombia for the first time, at the Centro de Eventos y Conciertos in Sopó (Cundinamarca), during the Liebe ist für alle da tour. It was the fifth of that tour’s six Latin American dates, after Santiago, Buenos Aires and two nights in São Paulo, and before Mexico City.
Together with the label and the promoter, the community actively supported the concert with events and a promotion plan. As a fan action we made the largest themed flag in the world, with a welcome message and the flags of both countries. Fire, German and thousands of Colombian voices: the founding night of the archive. From there, back to work to bring them again.
2009
The band · November 5, 2009
Liebe ist für alle da is put on the index
Three weeks after its release, the BPjM, Germany’s federal authority for media harmful to minors, put Liebe ist für alle da on its index because of the lyrics of “Ich tu dir weh” and a booklet photo of Richard Kruspe spanking a naked woman. From then on the album could not be displayed, sold to minors or advertised, and the label had to release an edition without that song or that photo. On May 31, 2010, the Administrative Court of Cologne provisionally suspended the measure and the album came off the index; the decision was made final in 2011.
Album · October 16, 2009
Liebe ist für alle da
The sixth album, recorded in the United States (Los Angeles and California) with Jacob Hellner, with “Pussy”, “Ich tu dir weh” and “Haifisch”. It enters the German chart at number 1 and, weeks later, the BPjM puts it on its index of media harmful to minors. Its initials — LIFAD — give their name to the official fan clubs around the world, including our community. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
Video · September 16, 2009
"Pussy", the video outside every channel
A month before Liebe ist für alle da, the band premieres the “Pussy” video online, directed by Jonas Åkerlund. With explicit sex scenes, it couldn’t air on TV or go up on the usual platforms, so it was published on an adult site. Even so, the song became the band’s first number 1 in Germany.
Community
The club reactivates with Liebe ist für alle da
Around 2009 the community goes through a period of inactivity. It reactivates the moment Liebe ist für alle da, the band’s sixth studio album, is confirmed — and later released. New record, same push as ever.
2007
Community
Rammstein puts us in their top
In the era when MySpace was the hub for communities and musicians, Rammstein added Rammstein Colombia to their top, a direct link from the band’s profile. The highest recognition of the work we had been doing: organizing events, bringing people together and supporting bands influenced by them, like the local act INFO.
2006
The band
A second Grammy nomination: "Mein Teil"
Seven years after “Du hast”, the band is back in the Best Metal Performance category at the 48th Grammy Awards, this time with “Mein Teil” from Reise, Reise. Slipknot’s “Before I Forget” wins. To this day they are Rammstein’s only two Grammy nominations.
Community
The Rammstein Colombia logo is born
With the community consolidated, our visual identity is born: the Rammstein Colombia logo, which fuses the classic Rammstein “R” with a “C” in the same typeface. The union, in a single symbol, of the German machine and Colombia.
2005
Album · October 28, 2005
Rosenrot
Born from the Reise, Reise sessions and recorded between Málaga and Berlin with Jacob Hellner, it brings “Benzin”, “Mann gegen Mann” and the duet “Te quiero puta!” with Carmen Zapata, the band’s first direct nod to the Spanish-speaking audience. It reaches number 1 in Germany. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
Community · October 22, 2005
The first attempt: El Campín
Rammstein announces a concert at Bogotá’s El Campín stadium for October 22, 2005, as part of their first Latin American tour as headliners (in 1999 they had already played the region opening for KISS). The community was already getting ready when the show fell through.
The cause is documented: on July 30, 2005, in Gothenburg, Sweden, Flake ran into Till with his Segway during “Amerika” and injured his knee. Every remaining date of the year was cancelled, and with them the Colombian debut. The dream would have to wait five more years.
2004
Album · September 27, 2004
Reise, Reise
The fourth album, recorded from November 2003 in Málaga with Jacob Hellner, with “Mein Teil”, “Amerika” and “Ohne dich”. It reaches number 1 in Germany, and its packaging imitates an aircraft’s black box. The same year in which, across the Atlantic, the community that sustains this archive today is born. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
Community
Rammstein Colombia is born
A group of fans who met on MSN, MSN Groups, international forums and chats like Radioactiva, StarMedia and LatinChat founds Rammstein Colombia, the band’s official community in the country. The first gatherings were at Parque El Salitre in Bogotá. We were born as Rammstein Colombia years before any idea of LIFAD existed: this is who we have always been.
2001
Album · April 2, 2001
Mutter
For many, the masterpiece. Recorded in May and June 2000 at Studio Miraval in the south of France, with Jacob Hellner producing, it enters the German chart at number 1 and stays there for four weeks. “Sonne”, “Ich will”, “Feuer frei!” and the heartbreaking “Mutter” cement Rammstein as the biggest German band on the planet. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
1999
The band · February 24, 1999
"Du hast" is nominated for a Grammy
At the 41st Grammy Awards, “Du hast” competes for Best Metal Performance alongside Judas Priest, Rage Against the Machine and Nashville Pussy. Metallica’s “Better Than You” wins. A song sung in German, nominated in the United States: a measure of how far Sehnsucht had gone.
1998
Tour · August 22, 1998
Two nights at the Wuhlheide
On August 22 and 23, 1998, Rammstein played to more than 17,000 people at the Parkbühne Wuhlheide in Berlin, the biggest show it had played in its home city up to then. Those two nights were recorded for Live aus Berlin, the band’s first live album and video, which set the stage-and-pyrotechnics format for everything that followed.
1997
Album · August 22, 1997
Sehnsucht
The second album, recorded in Malta with Jacob Hellner, takes Rammstein to the world. It reaches number 1 in Germany. “Engel” and “Du hast” become anthems, and the band achieves the unthinkable: an album sung in German certified platinum in the United States. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
The band
Lost Highway: the leap beyond Germany
The soundtrack of David Lynch’s Lost Highway, produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, included two Rammstein songs: “Heirate mich” and “Rammstein” (accounts differ on whether Reznor or Lynch himself picked them). The album came out in the US in February 1997 and in Europe in April. It was the band’s first big boost outside Germany, before it had even released its second album.
1995
Album · September 25, 1995
Herzeleid
The debut album is released, recorded in Sweden with producer Jacob Hellner. With “Du riechst so gut” and “Seemann” as singles, Herzeleid defines the Neue Deutsche Härte sound: industrial guitars, synthesizers and Till Lindemann’s deep voice singing in German. It enters the German chart at number 99; over the years it goes double platinum in Germany. Sources: Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (DE) and RammWiki.
1994
The band
Rammstein is born in Berlin
Richard Kruspe, Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider, flatmates in Berlin, start playing together and bring in Till Lindemann as vocalist. In February 1994 the quartet wins a Berlin Senate amateur band contest (Metrobeat), whose prize is a week of professional studio time. The resulting demo catches guitarist Paul Landers’ attention, and Christian “Flake” Lorenz soon joins on keyboards: the six-member lineup is complete and hasn’t changed since.
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